UNDERAGE CONSUMPTION, ROYALTON ROAD: A CVS clerk reported two men outside the building at 6:45 p.m. July 7. One was punching the wall while the other paced back and forth, she said, adding that she was afraid to go outside and look. Police advised the men, who stated nothing had happened and they had just bought drinks.

About 45 minutes later, an apartment resident reported two men dancing to music blasting from a car parked in the garage, adding that they had been doing this for 15 minutes. The officers found three men claiming to be homeless by the car. The officer took them to the police station, and two were cited for underage consumption.

DISTURBANCE, PEARL ROAD: A woman caused a disturbance at 6 p.m. July 7 on a restaurant patio, refusing to leave in spite of the staff’s request, after the wait staff refused to bring her a second glass of wine. An officer took the woman to the police station around 6:20 p.m., and then returned her to her car, still in the restaurant parking lot, about a half-hour later.

TRESPASSING, RACOON TRAIL: Even though she has told him not to touch her property, a man was still walking on her side of the property line at 5:35 p.m. July 7, an upset woman reported. But the man’s story was a little different — he had been trimming a tree and stepped a few feet onto her property. He stated he would try not to do it again.

COON HOUND, WINDCLIFF ROAD: His neighbor’s “aggressive coon hound” snapped its chain when it saw him in the road and started roaming around the street, a man reported at 5:20 p.m. July 7, adding that the dog’s owners made no effort to catch it.

An officer checked the owners’ house and found the dog inside. The dog owner said he would be more careful with the dog.

UNLAWFUL ATV, JAMES WAY ROAD: Two ATVs entered the woods at the end of the street, which belong to Parkview Corporation, at 12:55 p.m. July 7. Police found the riders’ truck near the intersection of James Way and Boston roads, and located the truck owner several houses away from where it was parked. The owner explained that his nephew and his nephew’s friend have been riding ATVs in the area for years, and said he would tell them they needed written permission as soon as they got home.

At 1:30 p.m., a separate noise complaint brought officers to the intersection of Drake Road and Foltz Parkway, where the two were riding ATVs. Officers arrested one on an outstanding warrant and took him to Strongsville’s jail.

CREEPING, ROYALTON ROAD: A female employee became concerned at 3 a.m. July 7 when a man continued to call the Marathon gas station asking for her. The man had come to the station the previous day, asked her several questions and left his first name and phone number. The man hadn’t made any threats, only inviting her to a party, but the woman was annoyed and worried that he might return.

An officer agreed to keep an eye out for the man.

SINK HOLE, ROYALTON ROAD: A sinkhole opened up near the intersection of Royalton Road and West 130th Street around 6:35 p.m. July 6. Stretching 2-3 feet in diameter and 2-3 feet deep, with the road cracking to the north as well, the hole was disrupting traffic. Police called the service department, which responded the area was the responsibility of Fabrizzi Construction.

Fabrizzi responded at about 7:45 p.m., at which point the sink hole reached 8 feet deep in parts and required barricades and fencing.

FLEA MARKET, ROYALTON ROAD: The Petco reported $1,100 in flea products missing — for the second time — at 1:15 p.m. July 6. Store employees have video, but had not looked at it yet. They added the store in Fairview Park had also been hit.

POOR PARKING, WHITNEY ROAD: An out-of-town baseball tournament caused problems for one homeowner near Surrarrer Park. He reported at 2:45 p.m. July 6 that cars parked on his tree lawn were preventing him from cutting his grass and “probably rutting it up” since the area had been wet, according to police reports.

An officer asked that the service department put up a sign between the field and the home to prevent future problems.

SUSPICIOUS HOUSEGUESTS, COOPERS RUN: The foreclosed house across the street had been vacant for two to three years, a neighbor reported, but that didn’t stop two men from attempting to enter the back door and then trying the garage door at 2:05 p.m. July 6. The neighbor suggested they might be landscapers since a pickup with a lawnmower in the bed was parked in the driveway, but there have been problems in the past with intruders.

An officer checked the house, but the two men had left.

MISSING STOP SIGN, PINEWOOD DRIVE: A missing stop sign at the intersection of Pinewood Drive and White Bark Drive nearly caused several accidents, a concerned resident reported at 11:30 a.m. July 6. He said his wife heard car doors slam around 3 a.m., and suggested that was when the sign facing eastbound traffic had been removed from the pole. An officer put up a temporary sign, and replaced it shortly after.

STAR GAZING, ROYALTON ROAD: A truck parked in the driveway across from Serpentini Chevrolet seemed suspicious to one caller at 12:20 a.m. July 6, but the driver of the vehicle explained that he was watching the stars with his girlfriend. The two agreed to leave the area.

RACING VEHICLES, IDLEWOOD TRAIL: A green Mustang and a black vehicle were racing down the street at high rates of speed, a caller reported at 7:20 p.m. July 5.

SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR, WHITNEY ROAD: A seemingly confused man wearing one shoe was rummaging in a woman’s vehicle, which was parked at Chestnut Lake Apartment’s recreation center at 5:15 p.m. July 5. The man, whom she guessed was intoxicated, gave her his name before making it back to his roommate and his apartment. Nothing was missing from her car, but she asked police check on the man. Police did, and advised him to stay in his apartment for the evening. But the man did not. At 8:25 p.m., he repeated knocked on a Cherry Tree Village Apartment residence asking for a woman who did not live there. He was carrying a wreath and had a screwdriver in his pocket, and still appeared intoxicated. Police drove him home and advised him again to stay in his apartment.

But the man still did not stay put. Around 9:30 p.m., a caller reported that he was trying to get in cars parked at Chestnut Lake Apartments. An officer arrested him for disorderly conduct at 9:40 p.m. and held him at the station until he was sober.

SOLICITING, JONATHON DRIVE: Several people drove a white van with “American pride” on it drove from Priem Road to Jonathon Drive, exited the vehicle and attempted to sell meat to residents at 6:55 p.m. July 5. Since they didn’t have a permit, an officer went to the area and found the vehicle locked on Ashwood Court. The solicitors were not near the vehicle.

SPIN OUT, INTERSTATE 71: A dump truck traveling southbound on I-71 lost control after attempting to stop in traffic at 3:55 p.m. July 5, spinning out near mile marker 233.4 and damaging the trailer it was pulling. The truck itself was not damaged.

LATE NIGHT SWIM, BRYN MAWR BOULEVARD: Seeing six or seven kids in the development pool at 1 a.m. July 5, a man called the police. When an officer arrived, two men took off running. But one man, a lifeguard at the pool, stayed to explain to officers that he was swimming with just two friends. Officers advised him he was trespassing.

ROWDY PARTY, SPINNAKER CIRCLE: A party ended on a poor note for a 21-year-old man who was stabbed with a marshmallow poker at 12:15 a.m. July 5. After medics responded, two officers went to the scene. One officer learned that another potentially injured man returned to his home, so a third officer headed to Jonathon Avenue, where he found the victim uncooperative. A fourth officer went back to Spinnaker Circle to search for the marshmallow poker.

DISCONCERTING FLIES, WHITNEY ROAD: A woman in the Chestnut Lakes apartment complex called police at 8:15 p.m. July 4 after she hadn’t seen one of her elderly neighbors in a while. But what really concerned her, she said, was a “large amount of flies on the inside window of his apartment.”

Officers knocked on the door, and when no one answered, got security to let them in with a key. No one was inside the apartment.

CAR ACCIDENT CONCERN, CASTLEREAGH LANE: A man called police July 4 after he had been unable to reach a man he was involved in a car accident with on June 28. That day, the man was driving down the road and went left of center to avoid a family walking their dog. At that instant, the door of the vehicle on the other side of the road opened, and the driver hit the door, pushing the door into the other driver’s leg as he attempted to exit his vehicle.

The other man said he wasn’t injured, did not need to see any medics and did not want to report the incident to police. But when the driver tried to call the man to make sure he was OK, the man would not return his phone calls. The driver felt compelled to contact police when he couldn’t get in touch with the man.

STOLEN SODA MONEY, OXFORD DRIVE: A 19-year-old man needed some soda money, but his way to get it landed him in trouble on July 4.

Police received a call at 4:15 p.m. from the man’s mother, who said the family was having trouble getting the man to stop stealing money from them to buy soda.

An officer responded and told the man to stop taking the money, and if he didn’t the family will prosecute.

TRESPASSING, DEER PATH DRIVE: A neighbor called police after he saw people in the driveway of a vacant house at 2:35 p.m. July 4.

The man said two women showed up at the house and threw out some garbage and moved a grill before leaving. When officers arrived a man, who was the father of one of the women who used to be a tenant in the home, was taking the grill.

The officers did find an open door, and checked the interior of the home. They noted it is vacant but appears as if someone shows up to clean it. It was re-secured.

LOST PHONE, PEARL ROAD: A woman left Michaud’s Town ‘N’ Country at 11:15 p.m. July 4, but not before she tried to drive away with her phone on the top of her car. She said by the time she realized it and went back to Michaud’s the phone was gone, and there was a group of kids in the area.

Officers located the damaged phone on Pearl Road, and the woman responded to pick it up at 3:30 a.m.

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